If you want to get someone to like you, don't offer to fetch them a Coke, rub their feet, or do their homework. They won't like you any better, and your servile attitude will only cost you their respect.
Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning;
Adjective
submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior; "spoke in a servile tone"; "the incurably servile housekeeper"; "servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work"
Adjective
pertaining to or involving slaves; "the servile wars of Sicily"
a.
Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a
servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly
submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery;
servile fear; servile obedience.
a.
Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
a.
Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.
a.
Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding
vowel, as e in tune.
n.
An element which forms no part of the original root; --
opposed to radical.
Servile
She must bend the servile knee.
Fearing dying pays death servile breath.2.
Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!3.
Servile
Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning;
An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
Usage Examples
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
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